<s>
Wavii	B-Application
was	O
a	O
Seattle	O
startup	O
founded	O
by	O
Adrian	O
Aoun	O
in	O
2008	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
subsequently	O
acquired	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
,	I-Application
Inc	I-Application
.	I-Application
in	O
April	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wavii	B-Application
developed	O
an	O
iPhone	B-Device
app	O
that	O
allowed	O
users	O
to	O
follow	O
topics	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
a	O
company	O
,	O
celebrity	O
,	O
politician	O
,	O
athlete	O
,	O
city	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
app	O
was	O
based	O
on	O
data	O
produced	O
by	O
Wavii	B-Application
's	O
proprietary	O
technology	O
,	O
which	O
used	O
natural-language-processing	O
and	O
machine-learning	O
approaches	O
to	O
convert	O
content	O
on	O
the	O
web	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
news	O
articles	O
and	O
blogs	O
)	O
into	O
structured	O
summaries	O
of	O
the	O
stories	O
they	O
contained	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wavii	B-Application
's	O
team	O
was	O
primarily	O
former	O
Last.fm,	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
and	O
Amazon	B-Application
engineers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
April	O
30	O
,	O
2013	O
it	O
was	O
announced	O
that	O
Google	B-Application
,	I-Application
Inc	I-Application
.	I-Application
had	O
acquired	O
Wavii	B-Application
for	O
an	O
amount	O
that	O
was	O
officially	O
undisclosed	O
,	O
but	O
which	O
industry	O
insiders	O
claimed	O
was	O
over	O
$30	O
million	O
USD	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
acquisition	O
was	O
viewed	O
as	O
a	O
way	O
for	O
Google	B-Application
to	O
expand	O
their	O
ability	O
to	O
understand	O
the	O
web	O
for	O
search	O
and	O
to	O
summarize	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Google	B-Application
discontinued	O
the	O
Wavii	B-Application
iPhone	B-Device
app	O
and	O
website	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
company	O
reported	O
that	O
it	O
is	O
continuing	O
to	O
run	O
Wavii	B-Application
's	O
technology	O
and	O
produce	O
feed	O
content	O
for	O
applications	O
within	O
Google	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
Following	O
the	O
acquisition	O
Wavii	B-Application
's	O
team	O
relocated	O
from	O
Seattle	O
to	O
the	O
San	O
Francisco	O
Bay	O
area	O
.	O
</s>
